Stark, Celeste

[attr="class","bioheader"]about.

[attr="class,"bioentry"]Writing fueled her soul from the time she was old enough to really write down her dreams. Celeste Stark has always been interested in all things that had to do with books, from the way they were made, to writing them, to how to get published, she was never and is never seen without a book in hand. Celeste has lived in Delphin Bay since she graduated from Texas State University at the age of twenty one. Her grandparents had lived in the Bay their whole lives, and they loved the place, and instilled the love of the old town in their granddaughter every summer when she went to stay with them in their little house on the coast. When they both decided to move to the Florida Keys to retire, they sold the house to Celeste, at a much cheaper price than they should have.

Celeste works at the Delphin Bay Book Store, in the town square, and spends most of her days there managing the little bit of business they have. Print is dead people say, but for her, there is nothing better than the smell of a good books pages. While she works at managing the place, she also spends her days writing a book that she has been working on since she was sixteen years old. The characters had changed and morphed quite a bit since then, the novel being a fantasy tale of a handsome king of a small country, her muse now being found in a local bar tender, that causes her cheeks to turn scarlet every time she thinks of him as she writes about the King. She struggles to make ends meet, but she's trying her best to do so, and fix up the old house that is starting to need quite a few repairs if it doesn't get destroyed by the next Hurricane.

[attr="class","bioheader"]history.

[attr="class,"bioentry"]Celeste Stark was born during a tropical storm, it had ripped through the coastal town where Elizabeth and Archibald Stark had met and fell in love when they were in high school. Delphin Bay. Archibald was from the Bay, born and raised, and Elizabeth had moved there when she was sixteen. It was a whirlwind romance, from the moment she had stepped through the door of his English class. They were high school sweethearts, prom king and queen in their Senior year, and went together to school at Texas A&M getting married after they graduated with bachelors degrees in English and Theatre Arts respectfully. Both got their teaching certificates and finding jobs at the same school. It was a perfect little love story. They got married, bought a house and ended up pregnant with Celeste within five years. Everything was perfect. The kind of story every one loves to hear. Though of course, like any other story, there was darkness hiding in the corners, that they would never see coming

They raised Celeste to love everything to do with books, reading, and the stage. She was happy on stage as much as she was behind it or even writing her own little plays for herself and her friends to do in the play stage her dad built in the backyard. Though her true love was really reading, and she would spend hours in the hammock in the back yard reading books that her friends wouldn't be up to reading for several more years. She was learning to read when she wasn't even near school age. Every summer she would go to Delphin Bay to stay with her grandparents, and got to know the kids in the town, it was some of the only times she wasn't stuck in a libarary. Though back home was a different story. Celeste would frequent the library and she was well known there, one day, shortly after she graduated high school it was storming, her car wouldn't start, and she went back into the library to hang out with the boy who worked there while she waited on her father. He had been going to pick up her mother and they would head that way as soon as they could. She was in the fiction section, perusing the books, when her phone rang, not knowing the number she wasn't going to answer it but something told her she needed to.

It was the police, her parents had been caught in a flash flood on their way to get her. No one could get them out of the car before it was too late. A month before she was going off to college at Texas State University, her grandparents had to fly in and help her plan a funeral for her parents. They sold the house for her while she was away at school, making sure that she went to counseling sessions because she had been kind of like a statue since their funeral. She never broke down like she should have, but she was blaming herself. Towards the end of her first year of college she had a small break down finally, and afterward, after she passed her finals, she went back to Delphin Bay. It was then that she realized it felt like home to her just as much as her old house had. So, when she graduated with her Bachelours in English degree, she decided to move to Delphin Bay, her grandparents had moved to the Florida Keys to retire and sold her the house, for much less than they should have. She got a job at the local book store, managing it, and conitnued to work on a book that she had started writing when she was sixteen years old. She had troubles with her main male character for awhile, but one day, when she stopped at the bar to have a drink before heading home she met the bartender. An extremely handsome guy that made her heart skip a beat the first time she saw him, and it was after that that her book really started to form, and the main characters really took off, only now they were more like the handsome bar tender and herself...and that was interesting.

[attr="class","bioheader"]loves and hobbies.

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• reading
• writing
• horses
• his bar
• dogs
• the beach
• music
• dancing
• books
• the smell of books

[attr="class","bioheader"]dislikes and loathes.

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• storms
• tv
• swimming in deep water
• liars
• writers block
• feeling alone
• getting calls from unknown humbers
• feeling lost
• stuck up people
• stubborn people

[attr="class","bioline"]25

[attr="class","bioline"]female

[attr="class","bioline"]hetero

[attr="class","bioline"]resident

[attr="class","bioline"]bookshop manager/writer

[attr="class","bioline"]Gabriella Wilde

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